Definitions
Hard foot of a horse, cow, deer, or similar animal.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).
Used in a sentence
“[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.”
“Get your hooves off me!”
“He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Horse's hard foot”4 letters
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